YOU CANNOT PUT A FIRE OUT - Walter Alexander Raleigh Poems

 
 

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YOU CANNOT PUT A FIRE OUT
You cannot put a fire out;
  A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
  Upon the slowest night.

You cannot fold a flood
  And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
  And tell your cedar floor.

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